When it comes to recruitment metrics, time to hire still is one of the most important key performance indicators for hiring teams. Not being able to fill an open position fast enough increases your cost per hire and it risks turning off high-quality candidates. Not to mention the impact a longstanding vacancy has on…

When it comes to developments in artificial intelligence and other technologies, the narrative isn’t always positive. But instead of unnecessarily focussing on the negative, why not concentrate on the positive? Like how technology can help us bring the best out of teams for example. Or how it can make us have conversations about matters we…

Recruitment as a career is the epitome of the phrase “trying to find a needle in a haystack”. Economic fluctuations, demand in a particular sector, an overabundance of graduates with a particular qualification – all of these things and more can lead to some jobs having hundreds – or even thousands – of applicants rushing…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been changing our lives for decades, but today its presence is bigger than ever before. Sometimes, we don’t even realize it when a new AI-powered system, tool, or product appears and outperforms us, humans. In fact, AI is affecting human life on all kinds of levels varying from: The automation of…

Diversity hiring is about much more than ticking boxes. Being a hot topic, workplace diversity gets a lot of mentions in HR trend lists for 2018. But rather than simply creating the perfect male/female ratio, there’s a strong business rationale behind diversity hiring. In today’s article, we’ll take a closer look at hiring for diversity…

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at Digi_HR in Athens. While listening to the other keynote speakers, I had ample time to make some notes. Here is Andy Spence’s presentation about AI, BAIlockchain and the cloud in blog-form. His jokes were fantastic, I have included them in quotations! New technologies are starting…

Have you seen the new Blade Runner 2049 movie? Besides a film full of action, special effects and dramatic lighting, it’s a production about AI. It’s a worrying preview of what our world could look like if we were to seriously step up our artificial intelligence game. This article is about AI in HR. In…